You run out into the path, looking behind you at regular intervals. You can hear it gurgling and squishing on the hard-packed sandstone ground. The soldier's corpse shifts, startling you, and you notice it carried a shortsword on its back. Too late now. You keep running. You forget how many miles long the Black Forest is. 50 miles? 100? And what if you hit the mountains? It's gonna be hell-on-Earth.

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

Fair enough. If you remember correctly, the Black Forest is at the southwesternmost edge of Germany, and you can stop at Munich, go through Switzerland and back into the kingdoms of Italy in no time.

You calm down Velvetino, let your eyes adjust to the darkness a little, then you tighten the grip on your club and begin to head out-

Just as you free yourself from the rocky hiding spot, the body of the soldier flies inches away from your face and impacts the mountain with a resounding SPLAT into the cliff face. Then you hear the horrible cracking and the bubbling of organs as the man's body begins inverting, armor being replaced by liquid pulsating flesh. The soldier dropped his sword in the collision and you hear the faint rumbling near the top of the sandstone cliff. A few pebbles loosen and fall in a small clatter to the ground near the now pulsating body.

The other organ creature crawls out of the woods, wielding an ax in one wiry bonecaged hand. It rests faintly against a large, but dead spruce tree near the cliff face.

*NOTE: There are a few ways to solve these Combat Puzzles, but there is one that is hopefully only somewhat difficult that will reward you and will add up to a better ending. The simplest ones (i.e. bashing their hearts in with the club or something) is effective but will not affect you kindly.

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)

"When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.He said, 'Son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned?'He said, 'Will you defeat them: your demons, and all the nonbelievers the plans that they have made?Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." - ("Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance)